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“Steve Jobs did create a mystique, but also some misleading haze,” said Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a Yale School of Management professor and author of “The Hero’s Farewell,” on the challenges of CEO successions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

The tightening of the family's grip on its empire also comes amid a wave of high-profile successions in other fashion companies in Europe.

From Reuters • Jan. 11, 2023

On that day, every cell in your body stretched and compressed in four quick successions, as did the atoms of everything else on Earth and in our solar system.

From Salon • Nov. 18, 2022

“They’re just doing these delegations, redelegations, these successions, anything to avoid complying with the laws,” said Peter Jenkins, senior counsel of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 8, 2020

Somewhere there was an actual arsenal, but it was closed off behind successions of sealed mesarthium doors, and anyway, Minya thought knives appropriate tools for butchery.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor